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...hula dancer, and she accepts mainland Christianity, first brought to the Hawaiian Islands in 1820 by missionaries. But her uncle Sam Pua Haaheo, an elderly kahuna, or expert practitioner, who taught her the chants, dances and drumming patterns of traditional hula 60 years ago, told her to "pray first to the gods of your forefathers. They were here first...
...fact, will the entire industry. Reports of near midair collisions in the U.S. jumped to 840 in 1986, from 758 the previous year. Potentially serious errors by air-traffic controllers rose to 141 in June, up 50% from the same month in 1986. "I pray a lot," says Valerie Jones of Basking Ridge, N.J., a passenger last week on a Bermuda-to-Newark flight. "You just can't take anything for granted anymore...
...dear Good, I think, dear God in whom I do not believe, It pray to you to stop this, for I am deathly frightened. Dear God, I smell my fear, with an odor as distinct as ozone on the air after a lightning flash. I feel fear so palpably it has a color, an oozing fiery red, and I feel it pitifully in my bones, which ache....Dear God, dear God, I am in agony and fear, and whatever I may have done to make you bring this down upon me, release me, please, I pray, release me. Release...
...Hughes observed with only a twist of irony that the Constitution is what they say it is. Each working day -- from the first Monday of October until the end of June or early July -- the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are asked by specific litigants with particular problems, Pray tell me, what does the Constitution mean...
...concerns education -- aid to schools with religious sponsorship and the treatment of religion in public schools. In 1985 the Supreme Court threw out a law authorizing a "moment of silence" in Alabama's public classrooms because the state law specified that the purpose was to set aside time to pray. The court hinted broadly that it might accept a nearly identical law if the measure did not narrow the purpose so plainly. Such a law is currently under challenge in New Jersey...